Asian Pacfic American Heritage Month PSA (AZN)

by vikas on March 9, 2010

Thank you to everyone who made this Possible. The Japanese American National Museum(www.janm.org), Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (www.leap.org), AZN TV, XLOR Productions, and Signature Entertainment. Written and Performed by Beau Sia. Directed by Justin Liberman.

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Pak officials yet to confirm Al-Qaeda’s US-born spokesman’s arrest

by vikas on March 9, 2010

Islamabad, Mar.9 (ANI): Pakistani authorities are yet to confirm reports regarding the arrest of US-born Al-Qaeda spokesperson, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, who was apparently nabbed in Karachi a few days ago.
Gadahn, who is 14th on the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists for lending support to Al-Qaeda, was said to have been arrested by Pakistani officials [...]

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Female moderate drinkers at lower obesity risk than teetotalers

March 9, 2010

Washington, Mar 9 (ANI): Female booze drinkers can take heart: A new study has shown that moderate drinkers have a lower risk of obesity than teetotalers.
The study has been published in the March 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
To reach the conclusion, Lu Wang, M.D., Ph.D., of Brigham and [...]

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PCB committee recommends fine,ban on players for violating code of conduct on Oz tour

March 9, 2010

Lahore, Mar.9 (ANI): The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) inquiry committee looking into the national team’s recent disastrous tour Down Under has recommended hefty penalties for wicket keeper Kamran Akmal and star all rounder Shahid Afridi for violating the player’s code of conduct during the tour.
According to sources, the inquiry committee has proposed slapping a fine [...]

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Testosterone can make you nice as well as nasty

March 9, 2010

Washington, Mar 9 (ANI): A researcher has shed light on how testosterone affects human behavior in a ‘pro-social’ situation – an environment where it is beneficial for a person to help someone else.
In an evaluation for Faculty of 1000, Robert Sapolsky highlights a study on testosterone published in Nature.
In an ‘Ultimatum Game’, a ‘proposer’ is [...]

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Prostate cancer patients should not take dietary supplements

March 9, 2010

Washington, Mar 9 (ANI): Researchers at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, have suggested that during radiation therapy treatments prostate-specific dietary supplements should not be taken as they increase the radiosensitivity of normal prostate cell lines, leading to normal tissue complications.
The finding has been published in the March issue of the International Journal of [...]

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US rejects reports regarding NATO aircraft violating Pak airspace

March 9, 2010

Islamabad, Mar.9 (ANI): The United States has rejected reports regarding NATO aircraft violating Pakistan’s airspace over Balochistan.
A statement issued by the US Embassy here, described media reports regarding NATO planes violating Pakistan’s airspace in Balochistan’s Chaman area on Friday as ‘entirely false’.
“No NATO aircraft flew over Chaman, as alleged in articles of several daily newspapers,” [...]

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“Our son still in front of our eyes,” says Gurshan Singh’s heartbroken mother

March 9, 2010

Melbourne, Mar 9(ANI): Three-year-old Indian toddler Gurshan Singh’s mother has spoken for the first time since the shocking incident, and described him as “beautiful boy” who still appears to her.
Gurshan’s body was found near Melbourne Airport on Thursday night, about 30 kilometers from where the toddler disappeared from a house in Lalor six hours earlier.
“Our [...]

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Victoria Police seeking help from woman in Gurshan Singh’s death mystery

March 9, 2010

Melbourne, Mar 9(ANI): Victoria Police has revealed that they are looking for a woman, who is believed to have assisted the three-year-old Indian toddler’s murder accused when his car broke down in Melbourne’s northern suburbs on last Thursday.
Gurshan Singh is alleged to have been in the car’s boot driven by Gursewak Dhillon that afternoon.
Homicide squad [...]

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New experiment shows how to see through opaque materials

March 9, 2010

Washington, March 9 (ANI): A new experiment conducted by scientists has shown that it’s possible to see through opaque materials and detect objects hidden behind them.
Materials such as paper, paint, and biological tissue are opaque because the light that passes through them is scattered in complicated and seemingly random ways.
Now, an experiment conducted by [...]

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